Sunday, March 04, 2018

"It Was the Angriest I Have Ever Been in My Life"

"'I refused to go to the back of the bus,' but 'the teacher pleaded with me. She said it would be advisable.' Eventually, with passengers looking on and the bus ride at a standstill, ML reluctantly gave in. ML, Hiram, and Miss Bradley walked to the back of the bus and grabbed a handle. 'I had to stand all the way to Atlanta,' King remembered decades later, his anger still there. As the bus went up the rural highway, ML had nothing to look at but seated white people and the darkness outside. 'It was late at night and I was tired, but that wasn't the point. It was the humiliation.'"

The Atlantic presents an excerpt from Patrick Parr's The Seminarian: Martin Luther King Jr. Comes of Age.

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